CAPRITO 83

Operated by ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 3125) in the ABRAXAS (BELL CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 35180District 08Field 00392025Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$13.9 M
Oct 1996 – Oct 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.4 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
85
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 5 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-10-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: TRANSFERRED TO ABRAXAS (CHERRY CANYON)

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition394,793 bbl$8,292,404
Casinghead gasProduction1,768,147 Mcf$5,625,856
Total$13,918,260

84,768 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 3 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (6)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 31.5715, -103.1226. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.57106, -103.12259 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
2 of 6 wells
Median depth
7,069 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.7 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
233.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
233.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

Between 7,050 and 7,142 ft, median 7,069 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2000 – Dec 2010
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2020 – Nov 2020
2 of 6 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.7 years and 20.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-4753440147,142 ftDec 2010Yes
42-47534493107,088 ftMar 2000Oct 2020Yes
42-4753435627,050 ftFeb 2000Yes
42-47534509117,050 ftFeb 2000Nov 2020Yes
42-4753442967,090 ftFeb 2000Yes
42-4753442677,050 ftJan 2000Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (85)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

85 months

Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20033,46713,19728.565.98$177,975
May 20032,91314,98626.595.97$166,963
Apr 20032,82815,76026.675.41$160,641
Mar 20033,43118,10331.146.10$217,198
Feb 20033,02914,88833.487.93$219,411
Jan 20033,31415,53330.315.58$187,153
Dec 20023,45416,43626.914.85$172,724
Nov 20023,31515,81924.664.14$147,190
Oct 20023,53717,85326.464.23$169,092
Sep 20023,67116,22527.443.64$159,713
Aug 20023,70114,59725.963.16$142,265
Jul 20023,20510,36424.583.06$110,511
Jun 20022,62911,12423.733.34$99,521
May 20023,29913,81624.663.58$130,870
Apr 20023,58615,57923.653.51$139,527
Mar 20023,81416,11022.003.10$133,893
Feb 20023,69414,90118.222.38$102,705
Jan 20024,05614,28817.172.38$103,585
Dec 20014,02814,07916.932.36$101,482
Nov 20013,89515,18718.072.41$106,915
Oct 20014,15614,32619.782.53$118,434
Sep 20013,82415,77124.262.25$128,276
Aug 20014,19818,58924.873.05$161,159
Jul 20014,42219,96523.933.20$169,648
Jun 20014,39820,45924.563.82$186,253
May 20014,52120,00425.524.31$201,540
Apr 20014,09218,48024.685.34$199,587
Mar 20014,57122,02924.545.38$230,610
Feb 20014,58120,54427.755.77$245,602
Jan 20015,36423,90127.478.40$348,088
Dec 20005,15020,61026.889.12$326,447
Nov 20005,37123,65632.215.66$306,846
Oct 20005,61830,52331.235.15$332,506
Sep 20005,26124,21831.875.19$293,275
Aug 20005,67024,23929.644.54$278,122
Jul 20006,15330,38928.534.09$299,829
Jun 20005,88427,44029.304.40$293,062
May 20005,80525,98827.263.68$253,874
Apr 20006,31726,41524.513.12$237,139
Mar 20005,19629,18528.422.86$231,132
Feb 20004,85016,91627.622.73$180,078
Jan 20003,13220,80525.272.48$130,752
Dec 19992,20814,38924.282.42$88,485
Nov 19992,17713,15723.192.43$82,509
Oct 19992,65919,41520.982.80$110,220
Sep 19992,50216,64521.752.62$98,009
Aug 19992,80221,48919.262.88$115,760
Jul 19993,24320,63717.892.37$106,976
Jun 19993,32123,53815.942.36$108,536
May 19993,38621,03915.792.32$102,297
Apr 19993,18916,04815.102.21$83,589
Mar 19993,89017,45712.471.84$80,600
Feb 19993,49912,1009.981.82$56,915
Jan 19994,42215,21410.381.90$74,806
Dec 19984,54725,5339.201.77$87,111
Nov 19984,06528,70510.892.19$107,009
Oct 19984,74926,49112.421.97$111,149
Sep 19984,43017,57112.592.08$92,367
Aug 19984,08915,31711.301.91$75,421
Jul 19984,30011,84011.742.24$76,971
Jun 19984,80015,34511.242.24$88,283
May 19985,08222,98612.622.21$114,850
Apr 19985,45823,77813.042.51$130,744
Mar 19986,90931,53512.802.31$161,263
Feb 19986,55024,71813.952.30$148,202
Jan 19986,37320,14014.702.15$137,081
Dec 19977,02530,51616.322.41$188,225
Nov 19978,76238,65218.193.09$278,748
Oct 19978,21644,16919.253.15$297,282
Sep 19979,09654,67917.742.95$322,933
Aug 19979,61347,88017.862.55$294,009
Jul 19977,50038,10217.582.25$217,463
Jun 19978,97236,50617.242.26$237,079
May 19978,24341,05718.972.31$251,150
Apr 19977,54814,08317.882.08$164,290
Mar 19977,83516,46118.951.94$180,393
Feb 199710,15928,92120.492.21$271,955
Jan 19975,92223,96923.483.54$223,892
Dec 19966,84427,91923.32$159,602
Nov 19969,49642,98921.97$208,627
Oct 19963,51213,86023.31$81,865

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Jun 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                3,467 bbl  × $ 28.56 =    $99,018
Casinghead gas    13,197 Mcf  × $  5.98 =    $78,957

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Month total                                 $177,975

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 08/O/35180 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.